Job Title
Infrastructure Engineer
Salary
£50k-£70k
Company Description
Extracellular is a mission-driven Bristol biotech startup accelerating the production of sustainable cell-based products like cultivated meat and bio-materials. By blending biology with digital innovation and biomanufacturing, they provide R&D and manufacturing services that help companies reach commercial scale ethically and efficiently.
Job Description
You will own the technical backbone for a cutting-edge biotech laboratory, managing an on-prem stack of Linux hosts, Docker services, and MQTT data collection. As the sole infrastructure specialist, you’ll ensure scientific data flows reliably from lab instruments to the cloud, hardening systems and building observability without a technical safety net.
Location
Bristol, UK
Why this role is remarkable
- True technical ownership: You are the sole infrastructure engineer with full autonomy over a modern on-prem stack and its future evolution.
- Direct scientific impact: Your work directly enables the development of sustainable alternatives to current production methods like cultivated meat and ethical cosmetics.
- No bureaucracy: Experience a high-trust environment with no on-call rotations, no complex change boards, and a direct line to the Head of R&D.
What You Will Do
- Maintain and extend a fleet of Linux edge devices and lab-floor collectors using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Ansible.
- Own the end-to-end data platform, from MQTT collection off lab instruments to cloud time-series storage and PostgreSQL databases.
- Implement rigorous backup, disaster recovery, and observability protocols to ensure critical research data is never lost and systems stay healthy.
The ideal candidate
- Proven experience (4+ years) running production infrastructure, with deep expertise in physical on-prem Linux systems and bare-metal service deployment.
- Strong networking skills including VLANs, routing, and firewalls, with the ability to debug at the packet level using tools like tcpdump.
- Hands‑on proficiency with Docker Compose and scripting (Python or Go) to modify bespoke tools and manage version‑controlled infrastructure.
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